But going too far the other way is how you end up with performance 100-1000x worse than it should be. Which is an actual thing that happens quite often in the w

But going too far the other way is how you end up with performance 100-1000x worse than it should be. Which is an actual thing that happens quite often in the wild. Also often ends up heavily dependent on some ORM or framework, making rewrites or multi-client DB access dangerous and painful.